Overnight front cools Bexar County air

By Eva Ruth Moravec :
November 2, 2010

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It's going to be a chilly, windy Election Day in Bexar County, forecasters say.

An overnight cold front that brought pea- and nickel-sized hail to the North Side - and golf-ball sized hail to the SeaWorld area - also brought temperatures down to the 50s, said National Weather Service Forecaster Amanda Fanning.

Tuesday's high will be 76 degrees with 15 to 20 mph winds and 25 mph gusts.

"It was a pretty robust cold front," Fanning said. "It should warm up to the 80s by next week, but we'll stay in the 70s this week."

While Monday's high reached 84 degrees, temperatures were much cooler by 11:30 p.m., Fanning said, when hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported at SeaWorld San Antonio. Smaller hail was reported at Evers and Wurzbach roads, and about half an inch of rain fell throughout the city, forecasters say.

The storm caused power outages that at one time affected about 4,500 customers, according to CPS Energy spokeswoman Ana Nelson, but most power was restored by 7 a.m.